This week article was over civil rights and it history. This was area that I’m not that familiar with. So, there was a lot that I learn from this lesson. The thing that I did know before this lesson was that Rosa Parks was arrested for challenging Jim Crow laws and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ban the discrimination in public accommodations. I also knew that the provision of the Fourteenth Amendment that prohibits any state from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal of the laws. Which is known as the equal protection clause. The Fourteenth Amendment attempted to guarantee citizenship rights to former slaves. The Thirteenth Amendment bans slavery. I wasn’t aware that it was passed immediately after the Civil War. I thought it
